We went to Museu Municipal Professor Joaquim Vermelho to collect samples of fauna found during excavations carried out in Estremoz. These samples, from several animals, will be essential to estimate what would be the baseline diet at Estremoz during the Medieval period.
We also took the opportunity to visit the museum, where we found the characteristic Bonecos de Estremoz, as well as pottery and other handicrafts made in the town.
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It was with great pleasure that last Friday we were at Praça Do Giraldo, in Évora, to participate in yet another European Researchers' Night (ERN), during which we had two activities:
"What do bones tell us about diet?", in a partnership with the FoSNeC project, during which we showed the dentition of several animals, including humans, and explained how it is related to the diet and adapted to a herbivorous, omnivorous diet or carnivorous. We also created two games for our newest visitors.
"Equality/inequality in the past: the role of Anthropology in its study", in partnership with the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology of the University of Évora, in which we showed several cases, mainly from Estremoz, of individuals with physical limitations and discussed how these would affect their life and the way they were seen by medieval society.
